Strawberry Jam

Yummy Strawberry homemade jam.

Ingredients:
500gms - Strawberry
500gms - Sugar
2 cups - Water
2 drops - Lime Juice
1 pinch - Salt

Method:
In a pan add in washed , cut strawberries.
To it add in water until the berries sink into it.Boil until Strawberries turn soft. Mash them completely. Add in sugar, salt and stir. Remove the white layer once it starts thickening. Pour in lime juice and keep stirring. To test whether jam is done take a spoon of jam and pour on to a ceramic or steel plate if, the liquid dos'nt flow means your jam is ready. Cool the same and stir in a sterilized bottle.

Apple with Brocolli & Red Bell Pepper veg soup

Weather is freezing cold & your tummy calls for some hot one bowl complete meal. Check this..

Ingredients

1 - Apple peeled

1 - Carrot

1/2 cup- Cabbage Shredded

1 inch - Ginger

1 pod  - Garlic

1/2 PC - Red Bell Pepper

4 florets - Broccoli

4 pods - Whole Black Pepper

1tbs    - Black Pepper Powder

1 tbs   - Any Cooking Oil

2 tbs.  - Milk or Cream

Salt to Taste

Method:

1. Cut the Carrots into cubes, Apple peeled and cut, shred the cabbage

2. In a pressure cooker pour oil add in the carrots, diced apple, cabbage,ginger,garlic,pepper pods.

3. Add half salt, water and give 4 whistles.

4. Cool them drain the water in a seperate bowl. Grind the vegetables and apple in a blender.

4. In a pan add in the drained water, rest of the salt, broccoli,red bell pepper and bring it to a boil.

5. Now pour in the thick mixture from the blender to the pan

6. Boil for 3mins adding pepper powder.

7. At last boil add in your cream or milk.

8. Serve hot with munchies.

9. Do not boil for long after adding milk or cream.

Biscuit Cream Cake

 When you dont have an Owen and really relish the baked recipes there comes out the alternates to them. So too this one which i tried. A desert to complete any good evening. Can be stored for atleast a week.

Ingredients:
200gms - Any Marie or Digestive Biscuits
100gms - Any Chocolate Biscuits
200gms - Cholocate bar
50  gms - Dark Chocolate bar
100 gms - Fresh Thick Cream
50 gms   - Butter
Water to double boil
Coloured sprinklers, choco chips for decoration
Mixed Nuts powder if required.
Butterscotch shots if required

Method:
1. Powder the Marie  biscuit & chocolate biscuits separately.
2. Melt the Chocolate bar in a double boiler along with the dark chocolate. Once it melts add butter.
3. Meanwhile whip the fresh cream so that it becomes thick
4. In a heavy bottom glass bowl layer the bottom with marie biscuit powder
5. Press tightly and then over it add some melted chocolate
6. Again on top of it add the powdered nuts layer
7. 4th layer would be the chocolate biscuit powder.
8. 5th layer melted chocolate.
9. 6th layer powdered marie biscuit
10. 7th layer fresh cream lyer
11. 8th layer butterscotch shots crushed
12. 9th layer melted chocolate
13. 10th layer add in the remaining cream
14. Decorate with coloured sprinklers.
15. Tightly close the case and refridgrate for 3hrs.
Caution: The cake would be hard at the bottom so use a good knife and a good rectangular case. I used a circular one which might be hard for few to cut the cake.

Relish, enjoy!!! :)

Quick Shahi Tukda

So planning to throw away the rasagulla /gulab jamun's sugar syrup. Think again.
Make a simple, rich, sweet out of it.

Generally Shahi Tukda involves a lot of Ghee, Rabri. Lets try a simpler and cost effective way 

Ingredients:
4 - Bread Slices (Firm)
2tbps - Roasted powdered mixed nuts 
4 tbps - Condensed Milk
100ml - Sugar Syrup
2 tbps - Ghee
Oil to fry
Cherries & coloured Vermicelli to decorate.

Method / Vidhie:

1. Mix 1 tbps of ghee with oil to fry the bread.
2. Heat oil. Cut each bread slice into 2 in a triangle shape
3. Deep fry then and drain excess oil.
4. Everytime you fry the bread put them directly into the sugar syrup and take it out immediately.
5. Set the bread slices on a plate.
6. Drizzle the condensed milk covering all over the bread slices.
6. If, you have ready made Rabri then its added flavour.
7. Decrote with Cherries, coloured vermicelli, powdred nuts & drizzle rest 1tbps ghee.
8. Keep it in the refrigerator in the normal compartment wrapping the plate with strech wrapper or a silver foil.
9. If, you wish to have hot that gives a different taste too.
10. I added a drizzle of rose syrup too :) which gave a awesome taste.